Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cattle at a nature preserve in eastern Iowa are managed via virtual fencing technology. The Nature Conservancy conducted a ...

STRONG CITY, Kan.—Cole Mushrush does two things when he wakes up each morning at the family ranch here in the Flint Hills—make a pot of coffee, then fire up his laptop to see if any cows have wandered ...

WALLOWA COUNTY, Ore. — For the past month or so some of the latest technology in livestock management has been in use at the East Moraine Community Forest in Wallowa County, but looking around the ...

ENTERPRISE, Ore. — A workshop on virtual fencing — the use of radio collars rather than fences to keep cattle corralled — will be held Thursday, Jan. 25, at the Cloverleaf Hall in Enterprise, the ...

LAKELAND — From his home or wherever he has his laptop computer, Jim Strickland is herding cattle. Strickland, manager of Blackbeard’s Ranch in Myakka City, is one of the only, if not the only, ...

A solar-power station creates a virtual fence on the east moraine above Wallowa Lake to contain cattle grazing on the property owned by Wallowa County. Some of the latest technology in livestock ...

When animals eat too much grass in one spot, it's bad for the soil and, now we know, the climate. For centuries, we've had shepherds and cowfolks to regulate their flocks and herds and, well, the like ...

A new collar for another type of farming. In the south of England, a herd of about 10 Sussex cows is trialling a collar that contains a GPS chip. But the point isn’t to track where the cows are — the ...

MUSCATINE COUNTY, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Cattle at a nature preserve in eastern Iowa appear to roam the land freely — no fences or cowboys on horseback patrol their movement. Instead, these ...

When cows overgraze it's bad for the soil and the climate. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is experimenting with virtual fencing to help avoid overgrazing. When animals eat too much grass in one ...